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Whatever happened to the right to protest for what you believe in? These people weren't doing anything wrong. You might not agree with their opinion, but that's not strong enough an excuse to ban their protest.

Its not as if they were supporting violence. Because their protest was of a right-wing nature, it was obviously seen as threatening.

I don't know, I'm something a bench sitter on this subject. I suppose if the protest was specifically and obviously ant-Islamist rather than anti-Islam this is incredibly unfair. Its a blurred line though

the battle of the boyne marches were timed to be as offensive as possible to the catholics.

these were timed to be not as ofensive as possible to muslims but to make life as hard as possible for them. they were implicitly racist also. it will have been the mayor prerogative to ban the march as it will have been highly counterproductive.

rescuing animals from fur farms, factory farms etc, but the fact that they then decide to set fire to things and generally act quite violent kind of gives anyone who gets involved in animal rights a bad name

sure they shouldn't have done that, and denouncing their country is pretty bad, but i can understand why they feel like certain aspects of life in their country are limitting their freedom. we are afterall talking about a nation which for one reson or another has invaded a number of purely muslim countries this millenium, as well as creating laws that seem rather biased against them for detention.

it is obvious that the terrorist activity that we are on the receiving end of is from supposed muslims, but there are element of the right wing who would have them completely band from Britain, which is not a nice thing to face in your own nation

and yet there is hardly any religious tension/race attacks/other big bad things you probably think the big bad muslims do.

therefore, this protest was entirely pointless. they claimed that it was a peaceful, non-racist protest, but considering the organisers were members of the vlaams belang, and other far-right organisations, that definitely wasn't the case.

had the protest been allowed to go ahead, the vlaams belang bastards would have gone along and preached anti-islamic, hate-filled rubbish and there would probably have been a retaliation from the very sizeable muslim population.

the north african population in brussels is, luckily, well-integrated, and allowing protests like this would only change that.

the belgian government is generally pretty liberal, and i think this was the first protest to be banned in about six years, when hundreds are staged in brussels every year.
honestly, anything to do with vlaams belang is bad news, and although the organisers tried to pass it off as perfectly innocent, it was clear from the outset what their motives were.

they claimed they were calling for a cutdown on islamic immigration (which itself is incredibly racist. i mean, why stop one particular faith from immigrating?!) because they thought their stupid protest would be given the green light if it couldn't be construed as overtly racist.